I think it's because I am in the admin group, so I'll try to look in the permission and settings and see what switch I need to flip, though I haven't had much luck so far... Maybe I'll must make everyone administrators and that'll work out without incident.

daftbeaker wrote:But if I stop bugging you I'll have to go back to arguing with Qwerty about whether beauty is truth and precisely what we both mean by 'purple'

Any statistical increase in the usage of the emoticon since becoming Admin should not be considered significant, meaningful, or otherwise cause for worry.

It was probably something to do with a forum softwarrrrrrrrrrrre update. Permissions got changed.

I've set up a couple of free forums and did a lot of messing around with permissions to get everything to work the way I wanted it to. It's either something to do with user group permissions, board or forum permissions, or possibly both. Without poking around in the guts, I couldn't tell you for sure.

I'll give a look-see in my forums and see if I can't figure out where to turn signatures on and off for the average usarrrrrrr.